Chapter 80 Scholar

When Shen Yueyao looked at Lin Daying, she thought of Su Erya.

They are all little girls of twelve or thirteen years old, but they are diligent and sensible. They can do all the housework inside and outside the house. They are filial and considerate to their mothers. It is rare to see them.

But Su Daya is already fifteen years old, but she doesn't know how to be considerate of her elders.

Old Madam Meng spent so much effort and cared for Su Daya, but Su Daya never thought about taking good care of Old Madam Meng.

Lin said softly, “Sister Shen, just tell us what you have to say. We don’t know how we can help.”

Shen Yueyao smiled and said, "I just remember that your family had accumulated some duck eggs before. I wonder if you still have any left. I want to collect some duck eggs."

Lin hurriedly said, "Yes, of course. Daying, come and give the duck eggs to your aunt."

Lin Daying moved quickly and nimbly to the inner room and took out two baskets of duck eggs.

Lin said, “Sister Shen, since you need duck eggs, just take all these. We can’t sell them anyway, so we don’t need them.”

Lin originally didn’t know how to be grateful to Shen Yueyao.

If it weren't for the medicine she gave her, her cold wouldn't have recovered so quickly.

The key point is that they didn’t have the money to go to the clinic to get medicine. If it weren’t for Shen Yueyao’s help, they don’t know what would happen.

Before, Lin wanted to give Shen Yueyao something, but Shen Yueyao refused it.

At this time, Shen Yueyao needed duck eggs, so Lin naturally wanted to give them to Shen Yueyao sincerely.

Shen Yueyao looked at these duck eggs and her expression changed. She didn't expect that there were so many of them.

She also knew that when Mrs. Lin fell ill, Mrs. Lin had to be busy with so many things inside and outside the house that he was almost too busy to handle it and could not go out to sell duck eggs.

Also, duck eggs are not valuable, and you probably won’t be able to sell many of them, so they are just left at home.

Unless these duck eggs are sold at a lower price, they might still be worth some copper coins.

Shen Yueyao said: "To be honest with you, Sister Lin, I plan to use duck eggs to make something delicious, so I thought I would come to your house to buy them first. I wonder how much Sister Lin sells them for?"

"What money? Sister, I don't know how to thank you. Just take these duck eggs."

Shen Yueyao shook her head and said, "That won't do, Sister Lin. I want to do business and I can't take things for free. Otherwise, I will be embarrassed to come to your house to take things next time. Just name a price."

Lin knew that Shen Yueyao was capable, and she had brought them a jar of chili meat sauce that she had made before, which tasted really good.

Anyway, she likes spicy food. When it's cold at night, eating a little can warm her body up.

Lin knew Shen Yueyao's temper. It was the same when she bought goat milk before. She could only say: "Sister, you can give it as you see fit. These duck eggs are actually not worth much."

"I set up a stall in town and sold them, four for a penny, but not many people bought them."

Shen Yueyao sighed in her heart, feeling that Lin was very kind and gentle. Such a person would definitely not say anything if he went to the town to set up a stall to do business.

Shen Yueyao thought for a moment and said, "Then let's have three for a penny."

It is more expensive than the duck eggs collected in town.

Lin was stunned for a moment. She was just wondering if she would charge five for one penny.

Upon hearing what Shen Yueyao said, she quickly shook her head and said, "No, sister, this is too much. Four for one penny, and not many people are buying them. It's better to go to the town and set up a stall to sell them. If you collect them, the price will be cheaper."

Although she didn’t know what Shen Yueyao used duck eggs for, she just felt that duck eggs were better than chicken eggs.

Afraid that Shen Yueyao would suffer.

Shen Yueyao said with a confident and calm look on her face: “Sister Lin, don’t worry, I make good things and they are valuable, so I will take them for one penny and three duck eggs.”

Shen Yueyao also didn't know how much she could sell if she sold preserved eggs and salted duck eggs.

She would adjust the quantity according to the market. If the sales were good, she could ask Lin to raise more ducks to lay eggs and sell them for money.

Shen Yueyao counted the duck eggs and found that there were eighty-eight in total.

It was two integers short, but Shen Yueyao gave thirty cents.

Lin and Lin Daying were so grateful that they were speechless.

They were so excited holding the thirty cents that they couldn't recover.

These thirty cents were a sum they dared not even think about.

I never thought I could earn so much money just at home.

In fact, Shen Yueyao used to buy goat milk worth five cents every day, which was equivalent to giving them money.

During those days, they suddenly had dozens more coins.

Who would have thought that there would be another thirty cents.

Now the family conditions will improve immediately, and we don’t have to worry about not having enough food to eat.

Lin and Lin Daying's eyes were red, and they thanked Shen Yueyao again and again.

Shen Yueyao smiled and said, "No need to thank me, I also want to collect duck eggs to make something."

Having said that, both Lin and Lin Daying understood that Sister Shen (Aunt) could obviously buy duck eggs at a low price, could obviously buy duck eggs from other people, or could buy them in town, which were actually quite cheap.

But he bought three duck eggs from them for one penny, actually because he wanted to help them.

After Shen Yueyao left, Lin and Lin Daying entered the house. Lin put away the copper coins and the money Shen Yueyao had given her when she bought goat milk.

Lin Daying said, "Mom, Auntie is so nice."

Lin sighed, "Yes, that's great. We were right to come to Liuhe Village. Daying, you must remember your aunt's kindness. When you have the ability in the future, you must repay her. As a person, you must know how to repay kindness."

In their family's situation, Shen Yueyao's help was really a timely help.

Lin was very grateful.

Lin Daying nodded seriously and said, "Mom, I know."

…

Shen Yueyao went to almost every household in the village to buy duck eggs, all at the same price.

But the explanation is different, so it says that duck eggs will be used temporarily.

There are fewer people in the village who raise ducks, but more who raise chickens.

After shopping around, I only bought more than 300 duck eggs.

Shen Shaojing took Dabao and Erbao to the yard to play with the children's toys he brought.

However, when Shen Yueyao brought back baskets of duck eggs, Dabao and Erbao squatted in front of the baskets to look at the eggs curiously.

Shen Shaojing looked at so many duck eggs and was a little confused, "Sister, so many duck eggs?"

Shen Yueyao said: "It will take some time to pickle the duck eggs, so make a few more first and you can learn from them."

Shen Shaojing nodded seriously.

"Let's wash the duck eggs first and dry them in the sun. While they're drying, let's go to the foot of the mountain and get some yellow mud."

Shen Yueyao had been to the mountain before and knew there was yellow mud at the foot of the mountain.

Shen Shaojing didn't understand, but he knew it was right to listen to his sister.

Dabao and Erbao watched them busy washing duck eggs and said, "Mom, we'll help you."

"Okay, Dabao and Erbao are really good. Take it slowly and don't drop it."

The two babies knew from childhood that chicken eggs and duck eggs were precious. They couldn’t eat them before, but after their mother got better, they had eggs to eat every day, and their mother would even make egg custard for them.

They especially like to eat egg custard.

So Dabao and Erbao were very careful when helping to wash the duck eggs.

Even if they wash slowly, they wash cleanly.

Shen Yueyao looked outside. Normally, Su Erya would have come over by now.

Shen Yueyao was a little confused, but didn't think much about it.

After washing, the items were hung out to dry in the yard, and Shen Yueyao let Dabao and Erbao play in the yard.

Anyway, Su Xueyi is at home, so there is nothing to worry about.

She went with four other people to dig yellow mud at the foot of the mountain.

I was just walking down the street and heard someone talking.

"Have you heard? Someone from the Su family just came to propose marriage to Su Daya."

"Is this true? I haven't heard the news before."

"I just went to see it, and I heard someone say that the man was a scholar from a village below Nanliu Town, and he was going to take the imperial examination."

"You want to take the exam for a scholar, why do you like Su Daya? If you pass the exam for a scholar, it's normal to marry the daughter of a rich family."

"Who knows, maybe some tricks were used. Didn't Shen Yueyao get in the same way?"

Hearing this, Shen Yueyao's brows knitted together.

She felt that things were not that simple.